Skunk, The

DESCRIPTION: "I hunt ze bear, I hunt ze wolf... Las' week I take my ax An' hunt ze skunk polecat." He sneaks up on it from behind, and is sprayed. When he comes home, his wife sets the dog on him. Not even the hog will let him approach. No more skunk hunting for him!
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1948 (Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps)
KEYWORDS: hunting animal humorous | skunk
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 67, "Ze Skunk" (2 texts)
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, p. 66, "(Go into old Ireland and soon you will know)" (1 fragment)
Roud #4254
NOTES [36 words]: Roud claims that the single-verse fragment "Go into old Ireland and soon you will know" is from this song. I have no supporting evidence, but I'll let it file here since it is clearly a fragment of something else. - RBW
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File: BeLo067

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